On 5/21/18 8:37 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> If you're looking for some deeper answer, like "Why did Stephen Bourne
> write it this way back in 1977?" then I would hazard a guess along the
> lines of "It is tightly coupled to the underlying C argument-passing
> interface which uses NUL-terminated strings."
As well as the majority of the libc API, which depends on null-terminated
strings.
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